{"id":107363,"date":"2025-07-03T13:26:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=107363"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:26:53","slug":"colombia-seizes-first-starlink-equipped-drone-narco-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/107363\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia seizes first Starlink-equipped drone narco-submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>International Desk(National Times)- The Colombian navy on Wednesday announced its first seizure of an unmanned narco-submarine equipped with a Starlink antenna off its Caribbean coast. The vessel was not carrying drugs, but the Colombian navy and Western security sources based in the region told\u00a0<em>AFP<\/em>\u00a0they believed it was a trial run of an unmanned vessel by a cocaine trafficking cartel. &#8220;It was being tested and was empty,&#8221; a naval spokesperson confirmed to\u00a0<em>AFP<\/em>. Asked if it was operated by Starlink, the spokesperson confirmed that the vessel &#8220;had that technology&#8221; but said the navy &#8220;was still studying how exactly it operated.&#8221; The discovery announced by Navy commander Admiral Juan Ricardo Rozo at a press conference is one of the first reported finds in South American waters of a drone narco submarine. It comes as cartels step up their use of hard-to-detect submarines, usually with a crew aboard, to smuggle cocaine across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Manned semi-submersibles have been used for decades to ferry cocaine north from Colombia&#8217;s Pacific coast to Central America or Mexico. But in recent years, they have been sailing much further afield. 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